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automatic

[aw-tuh-mat-ik] / ˌɔ təˈmæt ɪk /




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She had to set up automatic sprinklers to keep the outdoor plants alive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Alexander disease can interfere with movement, thinking, and automatic bodily functions such as breathing and heart rate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The cuts will be automatic unless Congress acts to strengthen the system.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

There is simply a small patch of negative space where something automatic used to happen.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

A page of Isaac Post’s automatic spirit writing.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

While manual transmissions were once common enough to be called “standard,” in recent decades, they’ve lost some of their cost advantage over automatics, noted Bill Stokes, a product planner for Subaru.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

The pass rate for automatics last year was slightly lower than for manuals.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

However, the delay doesn’t change the outcome: The CFP will shift the access format from six automatic qualifiers and six at-large bids to five automatics and seven at-larges.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

That’s despite the fact that automatics left manuals in their dust years ago.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

They made up packs of food, filled their capacious pockets with emergency rations, recharged and buckled on Lewistons and automatics, donned their armor, and clamped into their external holsters a full complement of additional weapons.

From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith


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